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TIL of the 60 hour Barkley Marathon. Based on a prison escapees route, only 14 competitors have ever completed the race in 30 years.

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XEWBE TIL of the N.S Savannah. A nuclear powered passenger/cargo ship built in 1961, that was intended to showcase to the world an example of the peaceful uses of nuclear power.
6E9WW TIL that verbs comprise approximately 75% of the Cherokee language, as opposed to only 25% of the English language. Verbs must contain at minimum a pronominal prefix, a verb root, an aspect suffix, and a modal suffix.
BDOx TIL in 1985 a man drowned at a pool party full of lifeguards that were celebrating that no one had drowned that season
OoEK1 TIL Nobel Chemistry winner Theodor Svedberg developed the technique of analytical ultracentrifugation, and demonstrated its utility in distinguishing pure proteins one from another
rJyo TIL that if you replaced the sun with a ball of gerbils of equal mass, the Earth would fry because they generate more heat energy than the sun per equivalent amount of mass